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...14. After a series of uninterrupted military defeats, Bolivar exiled himself to Jamaica. In a sudden conversion, he published the Jamaica Letter... ...s was crushed in an accident and then she survived a Caesarean section by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, ... ...ald was held in 1895. The contestants drove from Chicago to Waukegan. It was won by James Frank Duryea (1869-1967). His average speed was a whopp... ..., lost the race, driving a German Benz. The Duryea brothers - Charles Edgar and James Frank - were technological pioneers. They invented the fir... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...s operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house - Goldeneye - in Jamaica. He worked for the Kemsley group of papers and vacatione... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne... ...e American public. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for his tome, The Spirit of Saint Louis and died in 1974 in Hawaii. The kidnapping and gr... .... The Interments act of 1882 permitted to inter the culprit in a churchyard or parish burial grounds, again without rites - though a special ki...

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...for the plate-warming pan which Rawdon talked about. If Messrs. Howell and James were to publish a list of the purchasers of all the trinkets which th... ...awdon wrapped in his cloak, and making his bivouac under the rain at Mount Saint John, was thinking, with all the force of his heart, about the little... ...f the Imperial Guard 76 V anity Fair – V olume Two marched up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to sweep the English from the height whic... ...der Gaffer Jones to be converted, as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James’s powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy. My Lord S... ...the Fire,” and “The Livery of Sin,” of a much stronger kind. CHAPTER XXXIV James Crawley’s Pipe Is Put Out THE AMIABLE BEHA VIOUR of Mr. Crawley, and ... ...ub (the apothecary, the undertaker, the great car- penter and builder, the parish clerk, who was allowed to come stealthily, and Mr. Clapp, our old ac... ...o gave summer dejeuners frequented by Dukes and Earls, and drove about the parish with magnificent yellow liveries and bay horses, such as the royal s... ...er Lady Southdown, of course, came too; and she set about con- verting the parish under the Rector’s nose, and brought down her irregular clergy to th... ...e house was an officer of the great Duke and distin- guished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. During the whole of Mary’s confinement, the h...

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...re- gret and hope to Bois de Duc, Avignon, and Italy. [Where the Chevalier Saint George, or, as he was termed, the Old Pre- tender, held his exiled co... ...ife. The list of the beauties who displayed their hebdomadal finery at the parish church of W averley was neither numerous nor select. By far the most... ... her into a positive goddess, or elevated her at least to a level with the saint her namesake, Mrs. Rachel Waverley gained some intimation which deter... ... pew upon the Sunday when he attended service for the last time at the old parish church, upon which occa- sion, at the request of his uncle and Aunt ... ...he rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, of those... ... delinquency, imprison, try, and execute his vassals at his pleasure. Like James the First. how- ever, the present possessor of this authority was mor... ...ately burdened, and was a fault- less young gentleman, being as sober as a saint—if you keep brandy from him, and him from brandy—and who, in brief, h... ...ended, purporting to be an Earl’s patent, granted by no less a person than James the Third King of England, and Eighth King of Scotland, to his right ... ... fair-haired son, and the glance of the sword has done but little for King James.’ The Chieftain, in two words of French, explained to Waverley, that ...

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...t upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of bli... ... easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind con... ... livery stable-yard, and in the cold gloom, favourable to medi- tation, of Saint James’s Square. Thus. Twemlow had first known Veneering at his club, ... ...y stable-yard, and in the cold gloom, favourable to medi- tation, of Saint James’s Square. Thus. Twemlow had first known Veneering at his club, where ... ...s, ‘I insist upon your tell- ing all that is to be told about the man from Jamaica.’ ‘Give you my honour I never heard of any man from Ja- maica, exce... ... away, and the family retired; she cherubically escorted, like some severe saint in a painting, or merely human matron allegorically treated. ‘And by ... ...enerally expected to have more time to spare than the idlest person in the parish, and more money than the richest. He accepted the needless inequalit... ...r his dry-toast and weak tea, and over the stable- yard in Duke Street, St James’s, received a highly-perfumed cocked-hat and monogram from Mrs V enee... ...g orphan to be found at Brentford. One of the de- ceased parents (late his parishioners) had a poor widowed grandmother in that agreeable town, and sh...

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...he mysterious agencies of the Christian faith? In Essenism we find again a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roma... ...on, not into the ear of the 14 Thomas de Quincey random crowd, but of the saintly confessional, argues an impassioned theme. Impassioned, therefore, ... ... was disputed. Gerson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the same time it must not be denied, that, i... ...on, and at Cintra; next in Madeira; then in the West Indies; sometimes in Jamaica, sometimes in St. Kitt’s; court- ing the supposed benefit of hot cl... ...ylvania (my brother’s kingdom) ever could have devised, was the celebrated James Burnett, better known to the English public by his judicial title of ... ...airs. One (my tutor) was a cler- gyman, rector of a church, and having his parish, his large family, and three pupils to attend. He was, besides, a ve... ...ntary favor of accidents. Once or twice they were brought to action by Sir James Duff and Sir Charles Asgill; and, ludicrously enough, once more they ... ...ection, which delivered them from the black sabre, and transferred them to Jamaica. There, however, though safe, they were, as respected Colonel Charo...

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...he devil in him; and history may say what it will of 181 Charlotte Brontë James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, b... ...so near the hearth, and wore a surtout in the house. Pres- ently the words Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish T own, indicated the West Indies as his residenc... ...e is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies; from Spanish T own, in Jamaica, I think.” Mr. Rochester was standing near me; he had taken my hand... ...asleep on the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a saint’s-day service at the new church—for in mat- ters of religion she was ... ... merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at—church, Spanish T own, Jamaica. The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that c... ...xchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. I heard him go as I stood at ... ...ive here: he is only staying a while. When he is at home, he is in his own parish at Morton.” “That village a few miles off? “Aye.” “And what is he?” ... ...but observe, my sphere is narrow. I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort. And if you are inclined to des... ...e had held me in awe, because he had held me in doubt. How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were b...

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...r religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my parishioners told me that she could better judge her contraceptive needs t... ...ome. It is true that many Catholics are soured by Vatican dogma but in my parish I hold strongly to the official rules of the Church. I wouldn‘t dou... ...gly to the official rules of the Church. I wouldn‘t doubt that some of my parishioners use contraception and maybe some have had abortions. We are a... ...ntions several Jesuses. It was a common name at that time, as was the name James. But the evidence for Abraham and Adam only come from the Bible. As ... ... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ...onstitution. Among your American deistic founders were: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine and Geo... ...word ‗God.‘ It‘s like using the word dog. One person may be thinking of a Saint Bernard and another of a toy poodle. ―While many of your ... ...Adams, your second president, Thomas Jefferson, your third president, and James Madison, your fourth president, were even more outspoken than George...

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...ion.] He was (as I think I have somewhere already stated) a native of the parish of Closeburn, in Dumfriesshire; and it is believed that domestic aff... ...surviving friends of my father, 11 Sir Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the public... ... William Cunningham of Caprington, by Janet, only child and heiress of Sir James Dick of Prestonfield; and, among other children of this marriage were... ... of Pinkie, Bart., Admiral Adam, Baron Clerk Rattray, Gilbert Innes, Esq., James W alker, Esq., Robert Dundas, Esq., Alexander Smith, Esq., etc. The c... ...d satisfied, and if intimation were duly made at the kirk doors of all the parishes in Scotland, in 39 Sir Walter Scott terms of the statute in that ... ...hreshold better knows, than I Brute’s first arrival and first victory, Saint George’s sorrel and his cross of blood, Arthur’s round board and Ca... ...ll which escapes unheard, and scarce seen, from the fountain of his patron saint. The city resembles the busy temple, where the modern Comus and Mammo... ...ociety ap- proach much more closely to each other than perhaps the Dean of Saint Patrick’s expected. The savage is always to a certain degree polite. ... ...e to quarter us, as far as a cup of tea went, upon the hospitality of some parish minister of worth and intelligence, or some country family of the be...

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...’s lodgings?” 21 Sir Walter Scott “T roth can I no—I am a lone woman, for James he’s awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for ... ...ishops; held orgies with the Laird of Lagg, Theophilus Oglethorpe, and Sir James Turner; and lastly, took his gray gelding, and joined Clavers at Kill... ...yre-carlings [Witches] frae the bonny bairn, grace be wi’ it? Ay, or ‘said Saint Colme’s charm for its sake, the dear?” And without waiting an an- 32... ...hes of their will; Weel is them, that weel may Fast upon St. Andrew’s day. Saint Bride and her brat, Saint Colme and his cat, Saint Michael and his sp... ... Dominie Sampson was easily induced to renounce his public profes- sion of parish schoolmaster, make his constant residence at the Place, and, in cons... ... to the neighbouring workhouse. The decrepit dame, who travelled round the parish upon a hand-barrow, circulating from house to house like a bad shill... ...on of their various duties and commissions. The clerk and precentor of the parish en- joyed at a little distance his Saturday night’s pipe, and aided ... ...mass is singing, From thee doff thy mortal weed, Mary Mother be thy speed, Saints to help thee at thy need;— Hark! the knell is ringing. Fear not snow... ...e fixed upon a most respectable individual of this class, now no more. Mr. James Davidson of Hindlee, a tenant of Lord Douglas, besides the points of ...

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...had not yet taken place)—it was Ney’s column breasting the hill of La Haye Sainte, bristling with ten thousand bayonets, and crowned with twenty eagle... ...ays come here when you come to town, you know.—Drive to the Mansion House, James.” Finally came the parting with Miss Amelia, over which pic- ture I i... ...Charles Stuart, afterwards called Barebones Crawley, son of the Crawley of James the First’s time; and finally, Queen Elizabeth’s Crawley, who is repr... ...Pitt Crawley. Podder and another versus Crawley, Bart. Overseers of Snaily parish against Crawley, Bart. They can’t prove it’s common: I’ll defy ‘em; ... ...ove it’s common: I’ll defy ‘em; the land’s mine. It no more belongs to the parish than it does to you or Tinker here. I’ll beat ‘em, if it cost me a t... ...-coloured whiskers, and straw-coloured hair. He is the very picture of his sainted mother over the mantelpiece— Griselda of the noble house of Binkie.... ... his father to join. He patronised an Independent meeting-house in Crawley parish, much to the indignation of his uncle the Rector, and to the consequ... ...ord des fraiches toilettes. Happy, happy you! who have but to drive to St. James’s Street, and a dear mother who will give you any thing you ask. Fare... ...fidence, she put pen to paper for my sisters; she spelt satin satting, and Saint James’s, Saint Jams.” “Why, surely it must be Miss Swartz, the parlou...

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...Samuel, my dear nephew,” said she, “your first name you received from your sainted uncle, my blessed husband; and of all my nephews and nieces, you ar... .... I give you what I value most in life—the p,—the po, the po-ortrait of my sainted Hoggarty” (tears), “set in the locket which contains the valuable d... ...me elegant trinkets and embroi- dered pocket-handkerchiefs from Howell and James’s. These were sent down to me, and were to be MY present to the bride... ...nd laughed at the Director. About this time, in the beginning of 1824, the Jamaica Gin- ger Beer Company shut up shop—exploded, as Gus said, with a ba... ...en I was most in want of cash, Madame Mantalini’s bill, Messrs. Howell and James’s ditto, the account of Baron V on Stiltz, and the bill of Mr. Poloni... ... your detts! No, sir, it is quite enough that your mother should go on the parish, and that your wife should sweep the streets, to which you have inde... ...a while: many and many a time has she taken her daughters to the grave, in Saint Bride’s, where he lies buried; and she wears still at her neck a litt...

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... of phrasing that once found favour with the readers of the late G. P . R. James, a solitary balloonist—replacing. the solitary horseman of the classi... ...r of brown) who smoked cigarettes and rode bicycles in Buluwayo, Kingston (Jamaica), or Bombay. These were Bert’s “Subject Races,” and he was ready to... ...ell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world; saints and martyrs, dream- ers and scoundrels, the traditions of a thousand... ...going highest at the apex. The two ends of the V passed over Plumfield and Jamaica Bay, respectively, and the Prince directed his course a little to t... ...es were sent to Europe, and there reproduced. Every man, every town, every parish that could, was exhorted to make and use them. In a little while the... ...talk, was the quality of lost and deoriented souls. As Bert travelled from parish to parish, and from district to district, avoiding as far as possibl... ...e larger towns, he found the con- dition of affairs varying widely. In one parish he would find the large house burnt, the vicarage wrecked, evidently...

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...n narrows ways can bear to hear it! Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin’s Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain ... ...ertible with those he had already pronounced, he went on to inform us that Jamaica rum, though unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness an... ...nd on the top of that, the trav eller might stop, and—looking back at old Saint Paul’s looming through the smoke, its cross peeping above the cloud (... ...rt, eyeing him doubtfully. ‘It’s better that, than letting ‘em go upon the parish or about the streets,” said Mr Vuffin. ‘Once make a gi ant common a... ...ned themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red letter day or saint’s day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the pro found vill... ...t Soldier as well as the church catechism? This is the Valiant Soldier, by James Groves—Jem Groves—hon est Jem Groves, as is a man of unblemished mor... ...lock—’ ‘—And a rainy night,’ added the stout man. ‘The Valiant Soldier, by James Groves. Good beds. Cheap entertainment for man and beast, ’ said Mr G... ...bar. ‘Will you give me the change here, if you please?’ said the child. Mr James Groves was evidently surprised, and looked at the money, and rang it,... ...ch enabled him to liken it to Paradise itself, in contradistinction to the parish church and the broad thoroughfare leading thereunto. Kit found it, a...

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...e,’ said Sol; ‘when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—‘ ‘There were two brothers on board,’ interpo... ...lt, not to say like Richard Whittington—that is a tame comparison—but like Saint George of England, with the dragon lying dead before him. ‘Don’t cry,... ...t book, and from the Greek T estament, the first chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. We will resume our studies, Mr Feeder, in half... ... am your near relation, and can’t detach myself from that—’ ‘Say disgrace, James,’ interposed the other in a low voice, finding that he stammered for ... ...ce with trust and confidence, John Carker?’ ‘No,’ returned the other. ‘No, James. God knows I have no such thought.’ ‘What is your thought, then?’ sai... ...y way? Haven’ t you injured me enough already?’ ‘I have never injured you, James, wilfully.’ ‘You are my brother,’ said the Manager. ‘That’s injury en... ..., and looked sideways at his always smiling friend. ‘I’d bet a gill of old Jamaica,’ said the Captain, eyeing him attentively, ‘that I know what you’r... ...feel. My eyes are opened, all at once. I wouldn’t have believed this, if a Saint had told it to me. ‘I am foolish to give way to faintness,’ Miss T ox... ...9 Charles Dickens assistance of an accommodating tradesman resident In the parish of Mary-le-bone, who lent out all sorts of articles to the nobility ...

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...a- beth II as Chief of State Capital: St. John's Administrative divisions: 6 parishes, 2 dependencies (Barbuda, Redonda) Legal system: based on Englis... ...abeth II as Chief of State Capital: Bridgetown Administrative divisions: 1 1 parishes and city of Bridgetown Legal system: English common law; constit... ...e: British dependent territory Capital: Hamilton Administrative divisions: 9 parishes, 2 municipalities Legal system: English law Branches: Executive ... ... land under cultivation Environment: about 30% of population concentrated in Saint Helier Special notes: largest and southernmost of Channel Islands; ... ...t Official name: Bailiwick of Jersey Type: British crown dependency Capital: Saint Helier Administrative divisions: 12 parishes Legal system: English ... ... ber 1986) Fiscal year: 31 April- 1May Communications Railroads: none Ports: Saint Helier, Gorey, St. Aubin Airfields: 1 total, 1 usable with permanen... ...'s Party (SUPP), Wong Soon Kai; and the Sarawak National Party (SNAP), Datuk James Wong; opposi- tion is Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), Leo Moggie ... ...ernment Official name: St. Helena Type: British dependent territory Capital: Jamestown Administrative divisions: Ascension and Triston da Cunha are de... ... Helena; 80 km sealed on Ascension; 2.7 km sealed on Tristan da Cunha Ports: Jamestown on St. Helena, George- town on Ascension, and St. James Bay Air...

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... line of march -- An immense fleet -- A conquest without spoils -- Conquest of Jamaica -- Peter the great -- A merciless character -- Capture of a Spa... ...e of a Catamaran.................................................. 420 Captain James Cook...................................................... 424 Sa... ..., in quest of an island which inspiration told them was a land promised to the saints. This fabled country, which might have been Brazil, was not foun... ...e to some sad fate. He is curiously inconsistent, for while a ship named for a saint is lucky, the festival of the saint is an unlucky day, and if he ... ...stances eat the heart of a fish. He has unlucky days besides Fridays, and the saints' days. The first Monday in April is bad, it was Cain's birthday;... ...brought over. Three vessels, which had also been dispatched by the Governor of Jamaica to conduct an independent expedition of discovery and contest, ... ...isions to last the crews two and a half years, were put into commission. Capt. James Cook was appointed to the command of the expedition and of the sh... ...teenth century there were one hundred and ninety villages, divided into twelve parishes, having a bishop, several convents and monasteries, and a line... ...or Hudson, who followed and discovered the strait and bay which bear his name. James Hall, sent out by the Danish government, either to search for the...

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...od A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosveno... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosveno... ...al opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introd... ... not delayed; for his baptism is re- corded, in the register of St. Mary’s parish in that city, to have been performed on the day of his birth. His fa... ...pany. Johnson. ‘Why, Sir, when you go to see Foote, you do not go to see a saint: you go to see a man who will be enter- tained at your house, and the... ...hey believe god to be there, and they adore him.’ Boswell. ‘The worship of Saints?’ Johnson. ‘Sir, they do not worship saints; they invoke them; they ... ...us as they recommend them- selves to the tutelary protection of particular saints. I think their giving the sacrament only in one kind is criminal, be... ...ed just as I please.’ And when Dr. Taylor talked of a girl being sent to a parish workhouse, and asked how much she could be obliged to work, ‘Why, (s... ...he mason does get himself drunk, and let his wife and children starve, the parish will oblige him to find security for their mainte- nance. We have di...

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................................ ............ 337 CHAPTER XXXII ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE FIRST................................................ 343 SECOND ... ................................... ......... 409 CHAPTER XXXVI ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE SECOND.......................................... 422 CHAPTER XXXV... ... which belonged to Cassivellaunus, and which was probably near what is now Saint Albans, in Hertfordshire. However, brave Cassivellaunus had the worst... ...ear London, where there had been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the ... ...ilt an other little church which has risen up, since that old time, to be Saint Paul’s. After the death of Ethelbert, Edwin, King of Northumbria, wh... .... In better ways still, by the ris ing up of Wickliffe, originally a poor parish priest: who devoted himself to exposing, with wonderful power and su... ...of this time was the seizure, by Henry, of the heir to the Scottish throne—James, a boy of nine years old. He had been put aboard ship by his father, ... ...ned for answer, ‘Let Sir John Eliot’s body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.’ All this was like a very little King indeed, I think... ...better of the fight. Consequently, the fleet came home again, after taking Jamaica on the way. Oliver, indig nant with the two commanders who had not...

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...t upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of bli... ... easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind con... ... livery stable-yard, and in the cold gloom, favourable to medi- tation, of Saint James’s Square. Thus. Twemlow had first known Veneering at his club, ... ...y stable-yard, and in the cold gloom, favourable to medi- tation, of Saint James’s Square. Thus. Twemlow had first known Veneering at his club, where ... ... away, and the family retired; she cherubically escorted, like some severe saint in a painting, or merely human matron allegorically treated. ‘And by ... ...enerally expected to have more time to spare than the idlest person in the parish, and more money than the richest. He accepted the needless inequalit... ...r his dry-toast and weak tea, and over the stable- yard in Duke Street, St James’s, received a highly-perfumed cocked-hat and monogram from Mrs V enee... ...g orphan to be found at Brentford. One of the de- ceased parents (late his parishioners) had a poor widowed grandmother in that agreeable town, and sh... ...er with his hand on her sleeve, and urged her to come with him and see the parish-doctor. Strengthening her- self by the utmost exercise of her resolu...

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...ce in the last resort with the spirit of martyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retr... ...terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come to be dishon- ored or less honored, would the... ... doubt, therefore, that, from the year 1624 (that is, the last year of our James I.), she became the object of an admiration in her own country that w... ...is chargeable; and, if any dispute should arise about his maintenance, the parish will do nothing. Mr. White’s skeleton, therefore, being costly, was ... ..., on the breaking up for the holidays, at the Grammar School, a sol- * St. James’, according to my present recollection. 78 Memorials, and Other Pape... ...d the instant shipwreck of the entire scheme; this was a church of England parish cler- gyman, who was to be strictly orthodox, faithful to the ar- ti... ...nd generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered. And the... ...ng from him a good estate in Aberdeenshire, and one more con- siderable in Jamaica, he found himself, at the close of a long minority, in the possessi...

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................................................ 266 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ................................................................. ...s thy day also done? Alas, the Chapel organs may keep going; the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve be let down, and pulled up again,—without effect. In the e... ...of the ever-memorable Explosion itself, and read eagerly by all the world: Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie, and Louvet’s Cheva- lier de Faublas. Notew... ...s through France, as through vast forests the rushing of a mighty wind. At Parish Churches, in Townhalls, and every House of Convoca- tion; by Baillia... ...nd specialties of these Elections belong not to Universal, but to Local or Parish History: for which reason let not the new troubles of Grenoble or Be... ...re of Saint-Etienne du Mont marches unpacific, at the head of his militant Parish; the Clerks of the Bazoche in red coats we see marching, now Volunte... ..., ‘the Minister of Preparatives,’ looks out from his watch-tower in Saint- James’s, in a suspicious manner. Councillors plotting, Calonnes dim-hoverin... .... Charles Second sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroons with:...

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...rateful as it deserved; since it had been planned to walk quietly into the parish church, be married “without any fuss,” and then to take the fortnigh... ..., because she had a bow and quiver. I wanted to look at the rest, but Miss James said they were horrid heathen gods, not fit for little girls to look ... ...mother, Essie says Aunt Ellen says Janet and I are to do lessons with Miss James, but you won’t let us, will you?” “Miss James!” broke out Janet indig... ...er- ing over his first glance at the day’s Times. “I know what to do! Miss James is not coming back? And 108 Magnum Bonum you have not heard of any o... ... when I persuaded Charles Morgan to give himself six months’ rest from his parish by reading with Armine, that this was to be the end of it, though I ... ...woman of thirty-five, had cap- tivated him, as she did all the lads of the parish. He had been walking about with her, being introduced to all the nee... .... We cannot expect the world’s justice to understand the outpouring of the saints’ liberality.” Armine repeated this interesting aphorism to Barbara, ... ... understand it, or only so far as to say , “But I did not know that it was saintly to be liberal with other people’s money.” 363 Yonge He said Babie ... ...a air, had made no fresh engagements. It was a surprise to meet him at All Saints on St. Peter’s day. “Come with us, Infanta,” he said, pausing at the...

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...at- ing abundance of their enemies. They have not so much as a name for God, and have no religion, no worship. The saints who are canonized amongst th... ...oncubitor atque mularum. (Peregr. Baumgarten, 1. ii. c. I. p. 73.) More of the same kind concerning these precious saints amongst the Turks 53 John L... ...ch the other was hatched, I have a clear idea of the relation of dam and chick between the two cassiowaries in St. James’s Park; though perhaps I have... ... and a general idea. Wherein they make nothing new; but only leave out of the com- plex idea they had of Peter and James, Mary and Jane, 397 John Loc... ...d it cannot be denied but he that says they are two distinct species is in the right. But if an Englishman bred in Jamaica, who perhaps had never seen... ...es. Monsieur Menage furnishes us with an ex- ample worth the taking notice of on this occasion: “When the abbot of Saint Martin,” says he, “was born, ... ...urse with others. 34. Instance in Cassowaries. Were I to talk with any one of a sort of birds I lately saw in St. James’s Park, about three or four f... ... It would be a hard matter to persuade any one that the words which his father, or schoolmaster, the parson of the parish, or such a reverend doctor u...

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...feel. My eyes are opened, all at once. I wouldn’t have believed this, if a Saint had told it to me. ‘I am foolish to give way to faintness,’ Miss T ox... ...9 Charles Dickens assistance of an accommodating tradesman resident In the parish of Mary-le-bone, who lent out all sorts of articles to the nobility ... ... from the Shipping Intelligence: ‘“Southampton. The barque Defiance, Henry James, Com- mander, arrived in this port to-day, with a cargo of sugar, cof... ... being becalmed on the sixth day 56 Dombey & Son of her passage home from Jamaica, in”—in such and such a latitude, you know,’ said Mr T oots, after ... ... to him, you’ d be miserable, I dare swear now.’ ‘I should be truly sorry, James,’ returned the other. ‘He would be sorry!’ said the Manager, pointing... ... have me believe!’ 231 Charles Dickens ‘I would have you believe nothing, James,’ returned the other. ‘Be as just to me as you would to any other man... ...ptain. ‘Write, Sol Gills?’ ‘Ay,’ said the old man, ‘either to Barbados, or Jamaica, or Demerara, That was what I asked.’ ‘What you asked, Sol Gills?’ ... ...When I wrote the second, third, and perhaps the fourth times—that was from Jamaica—I said I was in just the same state, couldn’ t rest, and couldn’t c...

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...ndon, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the so... ... house; among whom I have pleasure in the recollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and ... ...hlet in defence of Radical Reform, in reply to a celebrated article by Sir James Mackintosh, then lately published in he Edinburgh Review . Mr. Grote’... ...t invent the word, but found it in one of Galt’s novels, the Annals of the Parish , in which the Scotch clergyman, of whom the book is a supposed auto... ...whom the book is a supposed autobiography, is represented as warn ing his parishioners not to leave the Gospel and become utili tarians. With a boy’... ...led himself, and even announced him self in the title page as, a pupil of Saint Simon. In this tract M. Comte first put forth the doctrine, which he ... ...rform, both in and out of Parliament, during these years. A disturbance in Jamaica, provoked in the first instance by injustice, and exaggerated by ra... ... was roused: a voluntary Associa tion formed itself under the name of the Jamaica Commit tee, to take such deliberation and action as the case might...

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... twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor....

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...schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journa... ...s and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time preceding. By that register I perceived that I was the... ...my brothers were) by an Esquire Palmer, then the principal gentleman in that parish, he qualified himself for the business of scriv ener; became a co... ...th determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England... ...discharge was accompany’d with an order of the House (a very odd one), that “James Franklin should no longer print the paper called the New England Co... ...book, a stool which she gave me to sit on, and a picture over the chimney of Saint Veronica dis playing her handkerchief, with the miraculous figure ... ...mbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and ten ants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless ex... ...mon acquaintance jocosely remark’d, that, knowing it to be the custom of the saints, when they received any favour, The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran... ...obiography of Benjamin Franklin 129 6 lbs. good ground coffee. 2 gallons Jamaica spirits. 6 lbs. chocolate. 1 bottle flour of mustard. 1 2 ...

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...oves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. They sepa- rate, at the session’s end, one to smoke cigars a... ...for long, and give us glimpses of old-world life in out-of-the-way English parishes when he was young; thus playing the same part as Lindsay – the par... ...ithout haggling, for some pence – this book may alone preserve a memory of James Walter Ferrier and Robert Glasgow Brown. Their thoughts ran very diff... ...he was beyond all the impudencies of logic, considering a reference to the parish register worth all the reasons in the world, “I am old and well stri... ...oe, The Inch Cape Bell (imperfect), and Three-Fingered Jack, The Terror of Jamaica; and I have as- sisted others in the illumination of Maid of the In... ...he garden; but for such joys of paradise we could have faced the Terror of Jamaica himself. Every sheet we fingered was another light- ning glance int... ... laughter of Fouquet himself, in the jesting controversy in the gardens of Saint Mande; once it is touched on by Aramis in the forest of Senart; in th... ... opinions, about the art they practise, of Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. Henry James; two men cer- tainly of very different calibre: Mr. James so precise ... ...genial, so friendly, with so persuasive and humor- ous a vein of whim: Mr. James the very type of the deliber- ate artist, Mr. Besant the impersonatio...

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... a conspicuous figure in T arbolton church, with the only tied hair in the parish, “and his plaid, which was of a particular colour, wrapped in a part... ...nfidant, the laureate poet, and the only man who wore his hair tied in the parish. He says he had then as high a notion of himself as ever after; and ... ...ho, from a very humble place, was mounting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtshi... ...ountry, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I., from Chaucer. The dialect alone ac- counts for much; for it was t... ... ca- reer, the poet was adopted by Master Guillaume de Villon, chaplain of Saint Benoit-le-Betourne near the Sorbonne. From him he borrowed the surnam... ...me moment in the poet’s life that he should have inhabited the cloister of Saint Benoit. Three of the most remarkable among his early acquaintances ar... ...n- jecture, but it is at least curious to find that two of the can- ons of Saint Benoit answered respectively to the names of Pierre de Vaucel and Eti... ...ear in a dungeon on bread and water, and a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia. Alas! the document was incomplete; it did not contain the... ... thank you: he would thank you to open the door. With what regret Scottish James I. be- thought him (in the next room perhaps to Charles) of the time ...